Module Review: Comment Notify

How do you keep anonymous visitors coming back to your Drupal site? In the ideal world, everyone who visits your site should join in and become a member right? Unlikely. In the world of Internet Marketing, you capture their email address so you can email them. But then you have that whole spam issue and that scares some people off - although, opt-in email is a great way to go!

One of the best ways to keep someone interested, is to keep the conversation going. In this new age of social media and social networks you need to offer the bells and whistles that most everyone else is - otherwise your site may be perceived as being “less than”. Now, you many not expect yourself to run a Facebook within Drupal (although I’m sure someone somewhere is), but the Drupal module you may want to consider is Comment Notify

In this video, I offer a review of the use, setup and wishes for the Comment Notify module. It’s a great way to keep people coming back to your Drupal site.

Special Note: In the video, I make mention of a public unsubscribe feature via something like http://example.com/comments/unsubscribe. After my own review of the video, it seems like I’m talking about the feature from the standpoint of unsubscribing from individual nodes. What I was trying to suggest (albeit poorly) was a universal unsubscribe for a given email address across all nodes (site wide unsubscribe from all comments). Comment Notify does offer the feature to unsubscribe via the email which is sent out as notification. It was just an idea.

Also, the suggestion about using a user specific block for user-based settings (which may seem hidden), is something which is a bit more complex than simply creating your own block. Further research will be required (and probably a dedicated module - which probably exists).

Now come on! Leave a comment, I dare you (just make it worth while).